Poetry Theory

Question 1

What is Poetry?

Answer 1

Words that express a feeling and have rhythm

Question 2

What is prose?

Answer 2

All writing that isn’t poetry

Question 3

What is the essay analysis acronym?

Answer 3

Every Cat Finds String Playful

Question 4

What does ECFSP stand for?

Answer 4

Engagement
Content
Form 
Style
....

Question 5

What happens in Engagement?

Answer 5

Read the poem
See if it is positive or negative
Find the subject

Question 6

What happens in Content?

Answer 6

Read the title x2
Paraphrase
Find Allusions
Dictionary

Question 7

What are the 3 parts in Form?

Answer 7

Rhyme
Rhythm
Stanzas
Sentences

Question 8

What happens under rhyme?

Answer 8

Finding what type of rhyme used

Question 9

What are the 8 types of rhyme?

Answer 9

End
Internal
Assonance
Consonance
Imperfect
Masculine
Feminine

Question 10

What is an end rhyme?

Answer 10

A rhyme at the end of a line

Question 11

What is an internal rhyme?

Answer 11

A rhyme within a line

Question 12

What is assonance?

Answer 12

Similar vowel sounds

Question 13

What is consonance?

Answer 13

Words that don’t rhyme but, consonants make it sound like it should rhyme ex. little kettle
Repetition of consonant sounds

Question 14

What is an imperfect rhyme?

Answer 14

Words that look like they should rhyme but they don’t

ex. Have Save

Question 15

What is a masculine rhyme?

Answer 15

Ending in a stressed syllable /

Question 16

What is a feminine rhyme?

Answer 16

Ends in an unstressed syllable u

Question 17

What is the symbol for stressed?

Answer 17

/

Question 18

What is the syllable for unstressed?

Answer 18

u

Question 19

What is a free verse?

Answer 19

A poem that does not have a rhythmic pattern

Question 20

What are the metric patterns or scansion?

Answer 20

Iambic
Trochaic
Anapestic
Dactylic
Amphibrachic
Spondaic

Question 21

What is Iambic?

Answer 21

u / ex. Away

Question 22

What is Trochaic?

Answer 22

/ u ex. Travel

Question 23

What is Anapestic?

Answer 23

u u / ex. Interfere

Question 24

What Dactylic?

Answer 24

/ u u ex. tenderly

Question 25

What is Amphibrachic?

Answer 25

u / u ex. assuming

Question 26

What is Spondaic?

Answer 26

/ / ex. Amen

Question 27

What are the types of feet per a line?

Answer 27

1. Monomer 2. Diameter 3. Trimeter 4. Tetrameter 5. Pentameter 6. Hexameter 7. Heptameter 8. Octameter

Question 28

How do you write down a metric pattern?

Answer 28

The scansion then # of feet per line

Question 29

What are the types of stanzas?

Answer 29

Couplet Quatrain Weird Spacing

Question 30

What is a couplet?

Answer 30

2 lines per a stanza

Question 31

What is a quatrain?

Answer 31

4 lines per a stanza

Question 32

What are the types of literature?

Answer 32

``` Narrative Social Lyric Light Dramatic ```

Question 33

What is the purpose of a narrative?

Answer 33

To tell a story

Question 34

What is an example of a narrative?

Answer 34

A Ballad

Question 35

What is the purpose of a social commentary?

Answer 35

Dealing w/ social issues

Question 36

What is the purpose of a lyric?

Answer 36

Express a light feeling

Question 37

What is an example of a Lyric?

Answer 37

An ode

Question 38

What is the purpose of a light verse?

Answer 38

Silly, meant to entertain

Question 39

What is the purpose of a dramatic?

Answer 39

Meant to be said out loud

Question 40

What is under Style?

Answer 40

Diction Figures of Speech .....?

Question 41

What are the types of Diction?

Answer 41

``` Archaic Slang Jargon Colloquial Formal/Informal Connotative Denotative Mono/polysyllabic ```

Question 42

What does Archaic mean?

Answer 42

Old words

Question 43

What does Slang mean?

Answer 43

A group of words created by a group of people

Question 44

What does Jargon mean?

Answer 44

Subject specific words

Question 45

What is does Colloquial mean?

Answer 45

Informal conversational

Question 46

What does Connotative mean?

Answer 46

Has added meaning

Question 47

What does Denotative mean?

Answer 47

Basic, face value words